Women and Mobility on Shakespeare�s Stage: Migrant Mothers and Broken Homes

by Elizabeth Mazzola

Long before the economist Amartya Sen proposed that more than 100 million women were missing--lost to disease or neglect, kidnapping or forced marriage, denied the economic and political security of wages or membership in a larger social order--Shakespeare was interested in such women's plight, how they were lost, and where they might have gone. Characters like Shakespeare's Cordelia and Perdita, Rosalind and Celia constitute a collection of figures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367886936
• ISBN13: 9780367886936
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"